Everything and anything

1. Three more done.

i hate painting space marines and that includes chaos space marines.  I started by trying to use the colour scheme from the game but disliked how it was turning out so went red rather than black.

i liked the red but then made a mistake but using a dark green as a counter colour, the marines look alright but I really don’t like how the Obsidius Mallex looks.  However, it is good enough and if I ever play the game, I can consider repainting it.

A group shot of selected antagonists .

Next up are the heroes.

I built one of them really badly and only noticed when I started getting them ready for painting.  Look at the gap between the arm and the cables.

I will try and green stuff some more cables to try and fix it but who knows what was thinking when I built this.

But this does mean that there are only nine mini’s to complete and I will have finished another outstanding project.

My Blackstone Fortress ‘baddies’ are almost all complete.  Just the Chaos Space Marines to go, and then the ’heroes’.

So 14 Traitor Guards, 4 Beastmen, and 2 Rogue Physkers have all been completed.

Then the Beastmen

And the Phsykers

Next up are the Chais Space Marines and the Champion.

So by my calculations, that is over one hundred miniatures in the last 17 weeks or so. I think it is 105.

I do expect a slight slowing of my progression as after the space marines all of the remaining miniatures are singles, so will need to be painted individually.  I may spend a little bit more time and effort on them as well.

i currently don’t have access to to my spreadsheets on my work computer and can’t be bothered to recount all of the miniatures I ‘need’ to paint but at least that is a good dent.

With there only being 6 full weeks to the end of the year, my plan is to complete Blackstone Fortress in that time and hopefully a few others as well.

Due to other circumstances (work being shit) I haven’t been able to use painting as my normal cathartic mental cleanser, so haven’t completed as much as I had wanted in the last week.

However, I did get 4 of the cultists completed, and have made a decent start on 8 of the traitor guardsmen.

And the guard.

The first 8 just need some highlights and they will be about done.

Then 6 more to do.

This week I have finished one set of miniatures and made a start on the next part of my pile of potential.

I completed the remaining five goblins on the Black Orc team and the troll.  I can do better but as I am giving these away I didn’t want to spend too much time on them.

Details can be found on my blood bowl project.  However I have the full team below.  Next week I should be having a game and I will give them away then.

I then decided to start in my blackstone fortress miniatures.  First up are the spindle drones.

The plan is for the repeated grunt miniatures to get them completed quickly, as they are just chaff.   So, initially I painted these a steel colour and then put a wash on, however they just came out as being boring.

So I repainted them black and white and took inspiration from the Citadel Colour app.

Then the ur-ghuls.  I did keep these simple by using a few shades and then re-highlighting.

So that is technically 14 miniatures in one week.  At that rate I should take me too long to get through my backlog.

I think the next models up are the Negavolt cultists.  I will then probably follow with the chaos guardsmen.

In think that is now 79 miniatures in 15 weeks, which I think is not too bad going.

However, as I still have well over 800 to go, let’s not get too excited.

5 more models down so the blood bowl team is more than 50% complete.

Just 5 goblins and a troll to go.

The goblins are on the go and there is a small chance they may be competed tonight – they won’t be but there is a chance depending on motivational levels.

Only 2 miniatures completed this week as I have been away.

A black orc and goblin from the Black Orc Blood Bowl team.

These are test pieces to see how I was going to paint the rest of the team and they turned out pretty much as I expected.

Hopefully this means I will be able to crack out the rest of the team reasonably quickly.

For details on the paints used I have put in all of these details on my Blood Bowl project.

The war band together.

I am not sure whether the Little Owl fits in with the rest of the band but it will do.

For the colour scheme I did just go to an opposing one for other warband which was white and red so these are predominantly black and blue.

When I get back from holiday the next project up is a black orc blood bowl team that I am painting for the local shop.  That way if any new people join the league it is alright for me to be a painted miniatures snob.

As I am away for a week and there is no chance of any else being done for the next nine days, I thought I would pat this early.

The remaining 4 members of the second starter warband.  I think I may have gone too bright with the blue but I quite like the colour so it is staying, realism is not always mandatory.

First the fox.

Then the squirrel.

The cat.  Can anyone see the BOW Easter egg on his back?  I also need to redo the eyes.

And lastly the weasel.